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[nny]

My little sister helped me liberate a chair while she was here. It wasn't doing anything special, lodged in the weird dark little lobby outside my front door, just holding up a couple of stools and a plastic-wrapped hunk of wood. It's been there as long as I have, and I've been sitting on ridiculously uncomfortable and prone to fragmenting Ikea slatted wooden things. I have this thing about altering the status quo... Now I have wheels, though. And comfort! And a lack of slatty crashes! I am pleased.

I went to see Smaller yesterday, and wound up buying some books from a charity shop because I was going to be at the pub an hour early. I read The Vesuvius Club yesterday, am half way through The Devil In Amber today - both of which are by Mark Gatiss and involve a bisexual secret agent who's a cross between Sherlock Holmes, James Bond and Hugh Laurie's character from The Gun Seller - and I've also bought The Handmaid's Tale. That last, I confess, I shall probably just insert on a shelf somewhere and not actually read, because it's associated in my head with Academical Things and Not For The Likes Of Me. Feeling the intellectual lack-of-worth a little, of late.

Tomorrow I shall get up at a reasonable hour and get dressed at a reasonable hour and get some fresh air at a reasonable hour, so talking myself up on application forms isn't like arm wrestling the insultopus.

Comments

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Girl-type secret agent or boy-type? *inquiring minds want to know*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Boy-type Edwardian secret agent. :D

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Hum. Well, doesn't that sound fascinating? Not that I need to buy more books, as a full SEVEN of my favourite authors have new stuff out this summer.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I am not nearly organised enough to have seven favourite authors. XD

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest, it's eight favourite authors, but one of them, my mum will buy the book and I will read it and thus not have to buy it myself. Which basically covers all my must-read authors except Shakespeare and Wilde and Dylan Thomas and they, being unfortunately deceased, are not producing new literature at this time. (The authors are Anne Bishop, Holly Black, Ellen Datlow (editor), Melissa Marr, Naomi Novik, Jacqueline Carey, and Lisa Mantchev. Funny how I like dead male authors and living female ones...)

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend reading Handmaid's Tale, it's not heavy going. It is emotionally draining, though. I sped read it, it was a bit much for me, and it haunts me somewhat.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

The Handmaid's Tale is a very readable book -- although I second what the commenter above said about it being emotionally draining and tough going in places. It's absolutely worth it, though: I read it years ago, but it's stayed with me.

The Vesuvius Club is loads of fun! My book club did that one last year.